Oct 14 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms' ( META ) Facebook and

Instagram were down for thousands of users in the U.S. on

Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

There were more than 12,000 incidents of people reporting

issues with Facebook and over 5,000 reports of issues with

Instagram, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by

collating status reports from a number of sources.